Garment-hanger.



H. H. BBVMAN & W. H. GREENLEAF;

GARMENT HANGER.

APPLICATION FILED 001'. 190a.

Patented June 15, 1909.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GARMENT-HANGER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed October 3, 1908.

Patented June 15, 1909.

Serial No. 456,100.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, HARRY l-l. REVMAN, subject of the Czar of Russia, :LllllYVILLIAM H. GREENLEAF, a citizen of the United States, both residing at Gloucester, in the county of Essex and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Garmcnt-Hangers, of which the following is a specification.

This invention comprehends certain new and useful improvements in devices for hanging up gari'nents when not in use, and the object of the invention is an improved device of this character that is designed particularly for use in supporting coats or the like, and that embodies peculiar means whereby it may be charged with suitable insect-repelling substance or material, the odor of which is designed to be disseminated through the garment upon the hanger to protect the former from the ravages of moths or other destruc tive insects, and thus permit the garment to be stored away for a season with comparative safety, said hanger possessing certain other advantages that will become at once apparent as the invention is disclosed, over the ordinary devices usually employed for this urpose.

With this and other objects in view that will more fully appear as the description proceeds, the invention consists in certain constructions and arrangements of the parts that we shall hereinafter fully describe, and then point out the novel features thereof in the appended claims.

For a full understanding of the invention and the merits thereof, and to acquire a knowledge of the details of construction, reference is to be had to the following description and accompanying drawing, in which Figure 1 1s a perspective view of a coat hanger embodying the improvements of our invention; Fig. 2 is an enlarged detail view of one of the ockets; Fig. 3 is an enlarged detail view 0' a bag and its spreader; and, Fig. 4 is an enlarged section on the line 4-4 of Fig. 1.

Corresponding and like parts are referred to in the following description and indicated in all the views of the drawing by the same reference characters.

In carrying out our invention, we provide a coat hanger which may be of the usual or any desired or approved construction or design, although it is preferably formed of wire which is bent to constitute a suitable suspension hook I and oppositely disposed downwardly extending garment-supporting arms 2. In the present instance, these arms 2 are composed of pairs of wires that diverge outwardly as shown, and that carry at their outer ends pockets 3, each of which is pref erably constructed in two sheet metal members. One of the members 4 of the pocket is formed at its side edges, near one end, with beads 5 in which are mounted the extremities of the wires forming the arm, so as to connect said member thereto with its outer end projecting beyond the ends of the wires as shown. is arranged beneath the member 4, and is secured thereto at its side edges and outer end in any suitable manner with its inner end terminating short of the corresponding end The other member 6 of the pocket of the member 4 and in. spaced relation there- -f to to constitute the mouth 7 of the pocket at the inner end thereof, it being noted that the mouth of the pocket is arranged below the plane of the arm. These pockets 3 are designed to contain a charge of any suitable it has been found desirable to employ an insect-repelling substance which is in liquid form, and in order to permit the pockets 3 to retain such a charge, I insert in each of the pockets 9. bag 9 preferably of cloth which is filled or partially filled with cotton or other absorbent material 10 that has been previ ously saturated with a suitable liquid such as oil of cedar which has been found in practice very efficient.

11 designates a spreader which, in the resent instance, is constructed of a suitable ength of wire, the ends of which are inserted in the bag and are arranged to hold the same distended in the pocket to increase the surface exposed to the air, said spreader being formed intermediate of its ends with a loop 12 which projects beyond the bag and through the mouth 7 of the pocket and is adapted to be grasped to permit the bag and its contents to be readily and conveniently removed from thepocket or inserted therein when desired. 7

It is to be of course understood that we do not limit ourselves to'employing substances of an insect-repelling nature in the pockets, but if desired ma place sachets therein, or use any materia or substance which will emit a perfume or the like with which the garment supported upon the hanger will .become laden.

' From the foregoing description, in connection with the accompanying drawin it will be apparent that we have provide; an improved coat hanger by means of which a garment supported thereon may beprotected from the ravages of moths or other destructive insects, or a desired. perfume disseminatcd through the garment, said hanger being simple and durable in construction and consisting of comparatively few parts that may be readily assembled and easily and cheaply manufactured so as to be placed upon the market at a price not too reat to prevent the general ado tion of the evice.

Having thus describe the invention, what we claim is: r

1. A coat hanger embodying garment-supporting arms framelike 1n structure, and complemental sheet metal members secured to and arranged within such arms and co-acting to constitute charge-receiving pockets, as

and for the urpose specified.

2. A coat anger embodying garment-supporting arms framelike in structure, and

I complemental sheet metal members arranged within the arms and secured at their edges thereto, the members co-acting to constitute charge-receiving pockets and beinfis'spaced at their opposing ends to form mout to permit the insertion of a charge.

3. A coat hanger embo ying garment-supporting arms provided with pockets formed with mouths, ags designed to be inserted in the pockets and containing absorbent material impregnated with a charge, and wire loops en aged with the bags and rejecting outward y through the mouths oft e ockets to permit the convenient withdrawa of the bags therefrom.

4. A coat hanger embodying arment-su porting arms provided with poc ets, be ethe pockets and containing absorbent material saturated with a charge, and s readers mounted within the bags to distend t e same and formed with loops projecting beyond the bags and through the mouths of the pockets,

as and for the purpose specified.

v In testimony whereof we afiix our signatures in presence of two witnesses. v

HARRY anus 'REVMAN. [a a] WILLIAM HENRY GREENLEAF. 1.. 5.] Witnesses:

J. MANUEL MARSHALL, VICTORIA J ACOBSON. 

